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Originally Posted by mkose1
And the title of your thread well I'm pretty sure I wont be the only one to say this but, fraternity and politics have been intermingled since the concept of fraternity began... it's something like all but three presidents were Greek, right?
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Wrong, actually. That's a Greek urban legend. Think about it -- the first fraternity wasn't founded until 1825; it would be years after that before enough fraternity chapters had spread for there to be a good chance of a future president pledging and for college students who had joined fraternities to be old enough (legally and practically) to be elected president. Rutherford B. Hayes (president from 1877-1881) was the first Greek president. He was a Deke. Not quite half of the presidents (20, I think, out of 43) were Greek.
And it's beside the point -- just because a president was a member of a fraternity doesn't mean that fraternity and politics "intermingled," any more than religion and politics would be intermingled just because a president was a member of a church. So, yeah, I'm betting you will be the only one to say it.
As for Fenty -- a proclamation was okay. Footing the bill was not, and he and any other government employees should have known that without having to be told. It wasn't clear to me from the article, though, whether Kappa Alpha Psi leaders knew the City was paying for the reception. They acknowledged and thanked fenty for footing the bill, but that can be read as thinking he did it personally (or arranged for it out of non-government funds.)
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